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Given the climate there right now the hospital was acting prudently.
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"Prudently", by allowing the family to decide whether or not someone else was going to live??
So, if they were hardliners, it would have been morally right for the hospital to let the Israeli family decide to let the old lady either remain on dialysis or die?
That's quite a sense of ethics you have there. I take it that you feel it should be ok for American hospitals to allow KKK members who are donating organs decide whether or not the organs can go to blacks and Jews, then. Or blacks decide whether whitey can live or not. Do transplant recipients get to decide whether they get blood from blacks or Jews too? (Like that old M*A*S*H episode where some wounded soldier demands that he not be given any blood from black people.)
The point of the story, since it seems that I have to point it out to you, is that the Israelie family didn't care, however a pal family would have let an israelie die.
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And you know this how, exactly??
Seems to me that there is some species called an "Israeli Arab" -- which side do you lump them in on?
Give me a break, why do people like you always have to find the negative.
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Funny, I thought YOU were the one who was "find[ing] the negative" by assuming, implying, and finally outright stating that Palestinians would have let an Israeli die, despite no evidence of that beyond your own prejudices.
And I thought YOU were the one who was claiming that it is morally right that the hospital gave donors a choice of whether to let someone else live or die, based solely on their own prejudices.